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From Automated Social Engineering Bot to Agents

Automated Social Engineering Back in 2009, I published my master’s thesis on Automated Social Engineering (ASE). The core idea was simple: combine chatbots with data from online social networks to fully automate social engineering attacks. At the time, the poor quality of automated conversations was the main limitation. 2020s: Automated Social Engineering Became Practical Today, […]

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It’s Time to Migrate Your Bitnami WordPress Deployments

For years, Bitnami was the “go to solution” for Kubernetes applications. But the landscape has shifted. With the Bitnami “Free” (Community) charts now deprecated and no longer receiving security updates, staying on that path isn’t just an inconvenience—it’s a liability. If you aren’t paying for their enterprise tier, you are running unpatched CVEs on outdated […]

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YubiKey & GPG on Ubuntu 24.04

My YubiKeys stopped working with GnuPG (PGP) after a release upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 (focal) to Ubuntu 24.04 (noble) on my device(s): GnuPG device error on Ubuntu 24.04 with attached YubiKey GnuPG did not detect the attached YubiKey after the release upgrade. Similar issues have been reported on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu. YubiKeys & GnuPG on Ubuntu 24.04 […]